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Empire Wind will resume construction off the coast of New York, after a federal judge on Thursday temporarily lifted the Trump administration's suspension of the project. The preliminary injunction issued by Judge Carl J.
Two offshore wind projects have now secured preliminary injunctions enabling work to resume, and now Vineyard Wind 1 is also going to court in search of relief from a federal government stop-work order.
The Trump administration has repeatedly ordered work to stop on offshore wind farms along the East Coast, pushing at least two projects to the brink of collapse.
Two wind farms off the west and north Wales coastline have secured UK government funding to supply the national grid, with up to 7,000 jobs expected to be created. The Erebus wind farm, set to be built off Pembrokeshire, would become Wales' first floating offshore wind farm, following two projects already operating in Scotland.
As US President Donald Trump hosted energy executives at the White House in early January to encourage investment in Venezuela's oil industry, he repeated his disdain for "windmills," falsely claiming China mostly exports the turbines it makes and has few,
Orsted’s C.E.O. says it plans to move quickly to complete a $6.2 billion wind farm off Rhode Island after a judge struck down President Trump’s bid to halt it.
China's growth with solar and wind energy has outpaced every other major nation around the world combined in an effort to combat climate change.
Although the news afford Orsted shares some relief at this stage, securing future investment for other projects is problematic owing to the regulatory environment.